is my pc good enough for FSX?
Nirvanium17
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Hey, I'm new to Flight Simulator in general. I was wondering if I shoyld by FS 2004 or FSX. I read that in order to have a good experience with FSX, you need a top-of-the-line PC. Is that true? I have a AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1 gb of ram, and GeForce 6600 256 mb, 160 gb HD. Will FS 2004 work better with my PC? Or will FSX be fine? Thank you.
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Stay with 2004 until you get a much better machine.
Good luck and enjoy it!
Please bear in mind that a 90% of my recent screeinies have come from an AthlonXP 64 3000, with 2gb ram, 160gb SATA2 HD and 2 x 7300GT cards.
You are not that far away.
Nirvanium
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Thanks alot Radarman. I apologize, I didn't see the sticky with the Game Advisor link. The Game Advisor told me my computer was great, and that I was in the top 7% of all PCs scanned. I'm sure when it told me that when my PC was capable of running FSX, it was talking about the minimum requirements, am I correct? Anway thanks alot for all your help. Peace
It checks against minimum requirements.
Nirvanium wrote:
Thanks alot Radarman. I apologize, I didn't see the sticky with the Game Advisor link. The Game Advisor told me my computer was great, and that I was in the top 7% of all PCs scanned. I'm sure when it told me that when my PC was capable of running FSX, it was talking about the minimum requirements, am I correct? Anway thanks alot for all your help. Peace
Minimum for FSX is miserable, stick with FS9 and all the add-ons for it will be much cheaper now.
Nirvanium17
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BashDaBish wrote:
It checks against minimum requirements.
What do you mean by checking "against" min. req.?
It compares your specs against that of the minimum requirements then offers a rating of how well it expects your machine to perform. If it compared your specs against FSX's recommended specs then your results would not be as impressive. Marketing 🙄
Nirvanium17
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Naturally 
Thanks alot for the help! BTW, I'm all new to this as I've mentioned in my above post. Is there a special book that will teach me how to fly, the basics, and advanced? Or will the FS 2004 Guide book teach me? Thanks!
Nirvanium17
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anyone?
Nirvanium17 wrote:
Naturally
Have you tried the FS9 lessons and Learning Center? They are quite useful at all levels 👍
Nirvanium17 wrote:
Naturally
There are lessons that come with the sim, you fly the lessons and there is a large learning center in the sim also.
Everything you need and members here who can help.
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